HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME Bright blue sky, pelicans gliding by in the still river, the sound of Thomas, Daniel and Bryan preparing breakfast on the terrace. I can hear that the boys agree that I should have the chair with arm rest and two cushions, which is a privilege only for the very lukcy - and lucky indeed I felt on this morning of my 38th birthday. And that even though I missed out on the first part of my birthday song as I had to run to the bathroom. In...

1 MONTH DONE, 2 MONTHS TO GO It has already been a whole month since we arrived in Australia. Time seems to fly by, we are happy to have two months left of our fantastic adventure. Status so far: Number of kangaroos: 3 in the golf course Number of koalas: 0 Number of dolphins: 0 Number of dead possums in the tree right next to the terrace (that smelled very bad until brave Bryan found it and fed it to the crabs): 1 Number of alive possums in the bushes...

STILL STANDING WITH STYLE This picture was taken by the surf school on Monday 6 February. Today, we are all going to see for ourselves.

KANGAROOS IN THE GOLF COURSE Friday we saw our first 3 kangaroos. Our friendly neighbour gave us a tip of having seen some kangaroos around 3 km away from our house. Thankfully my parents were in town with a rental car, so we jumped into the car and sure enough saw three kangaroos in the nearby golf course. It was funny to see how both golfers and kangaroos were completely indifferent to eachother. Unlike us that were very excited to see our first kangaroos ...

SURF DUDE Today, Bryan came home with a surf board (!). He had carried it the 7 kilometers home on roller blades!